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Sun Jan 22 14:19:50 EST 2006 - Time for a new release. Tony Cebzanov
did most of the work on this one. He fixed all of the plugins (except
Atame, which is down). He added a plugin for LyricsDomain. He also added a new
fetcher type, synced_lyrics, for use with programs like SingIt. For this new
fetcher type he created a Lrcdb plugin. It
might be interesting to throw something together that will let musicextras
and SingIt work together.

My only contribution to this release is the —update option, which
will fetch any new plugin updates from the webserver. This way I
won’t have to do a new release when the only changes include plugin
fixes. If you find that your plugins are failing, try using —update
before reporting the problem.

Sat Sep 3 16:15:16 EDT 2005 - Hey, what’s up? How are the
kids? Good, good. I have a present for you. It’s a bugfix release.
Well, not really a bugfix release. I fixed two plugins. Allofmp3, and
LyricsNet. Also, I moved the repository from subversion to darcs, because I
love darcs.

Mon Mar 21 11:00:26 EST 2005 - This is mostly a bugfix release. The
most notable things are the PLyrics plugin was fixed, and artist_cond_regex
actually works now.

Now that the Ruby-Gnome release has fixed the searching problem, I’d
like to get the incremental searching working for the GUI. But I
won’t have time for a while. If anyone wants to take a stab at it,
there is already some broken code for it in gtkgui.rb.

Also, the LyricsTime site has been down for a long while. If it
doesn’t reappear again before the next release, I’ll probably
remove the plugin.

Tue Oct 26 20:17:09 EDT 2004 - New release today. Added some stuff
here and there. See the NEWS file for most of them. I’ll mention the
WEBrick support, though. There’s now a web frontend for musicextras
using WEBrick. This version should work pretty well in Windows too, I hope.

I did try the GTK plugin in Windows. It worked reasonably well, but there
were still a few problems. Possibly by next release I’ll have some of
these problems worked out, but if anyone wants to take a swing at it, feel
free.

Fri Aug 6 00:08:28 EDT 2004 - Okay, here’s an official release
to handle the AllMusic.com site redesign. Unfortunately, accessing
information for the first time may be a little slow, since now more pages
have to be retrieved. But after the first time they will be cached and
access should be normal. As usual, make sure to clear out your greylist if
you got a bunch of false negatives from using the old plugin.

Sun Aug 1 14:30:18 PDT 2004 - AllMusic.com has redesigned their
site, which broke the old plugin. I have made an updated version, but
unfortunately my development machine has bit the bullet and I’m not
quite prepared to release a new version yet. But you can download the new
plugin here. Just copy it over the old allmusic.rb plugin and things should
work. Make sure to clear your greylist if a bunch of entries were added
while using the old plugin.

Wed Jul 7 19:03:34 EDT 2004 - This is a minor bugfix release. If no
images have been showing up for you, you’ll definitely want to
upgrade. Otherwise, you should still upgrade, but there is nothing
particularly important here.

Fri Jul 2 01:51:39 EDT 2004 - As I mentioned in a previous news
entry, I haven’t had much of a drive to add many features to
musicextras. I am fairly happy with how it as the moment. Some users have
mentioned a few features they would like to have, which I will add, but
probably not until I have an outstanding reason to release a new version.

One outstanding reason for a new release would be bug fixes. I know it is
hard to get yourself to report bugs sometimes, but bug reports is really
what I need at the moment. If you have problems with any aspect of
musicextras, please let me know. Musicextras is at the point where
stability is more important than features.